Numbers, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {10:2} Make you two trumpets
of silver; of beaten work shall you make them: and you shall use them
for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the
camps. {10:3} When they shall blow them, all the congregation shall
gather themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting. {10:4} If
they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of
Israel, shall gather themselves to you. {10:5} When you blow an alarm,
the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey. {10:6}
When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the
south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for
their journeys. {10:7} But when the assembly is to be gathered
together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. {10:8} The
sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be
to you for a statute forever throughout your generations. {10:9} When
you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you,
then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be
remembered before Yahweh your God, and you shall be saved from your
enemies. {10:10} Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set
feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the
trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your
peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your
God: I am Yahweh your God. {10:11} It happened in the second year, in
the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud
was taken up from over the tent of the testimony. {10:12} The children
of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the
wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.
{10:13} They first took their journey according to the commandment of
Yahweh by Moses. {10:14} In the first [place] the standard of the camp
of the children of Judah set forward according to their armies: and
over his army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. {10:15} Over the army
of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.
{10:16} Over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was
Eliab the son of Helon. {10:17} The tent was taken down; and the sons
of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tent, set forward.
{10:18} The standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to
their armies: and over his army was Elizur the son of Shedeur. {10:19}
Over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the
son of Zurishaddai. {10:20} Over the army of the tribe of the children
of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. {10:21} The Kohathites set
forward, bearing the sanctuary: and [the others] did set up the tent
against their coming. {10:22} The standard of the camp of the children
of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his army
was Elishama the son of Ammihud. {10:23} Over the army of the tribe of
the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. {10:24}
Over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the
son of Gideoni. {10:25} The standard of the camp of the children of
Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to
their armies: and over his army was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
{10:26} Over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel
the son of Ochran. {10:27} Over the army of the tribe of the children
of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan. {10:28} Thus were the travels
of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they set
forward. {10:29} Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite,
Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh
said, I will give it you: come you with us, and we will do you good;
for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel. {10:30} He said to him,
I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.
{10:31} He said, Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are
to encamp in the wilderness, and you shall be to us instead of eyes.
{10:32} It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that
whatever good Yahweh shall do to us, the same will we do to you.
{10:33} They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey;
and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days'
journey, to seek out a resting place for them. {10:34} The cloud of
Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.
{10:35} It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise
up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate
you flee before you. {10:36} When it rested, he said, Return, Yahweh,
to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.
{11:1} The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of
Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire
of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the
camp. {11:2} The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh,
and the fire abated. {11:3} The name of that place was called Taberah,
because the fire of Yahweh burnt among them. {11:4} The mixed
multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of
Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
{11:5} We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the
garlic: {11:6} but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all
save this manna to look on. {11:7} The manna was like coriander seed,
and the appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium. {11:8} The
people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it
in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste
of it was as the taste of fresh oil. {11:9} When the dew fell on the
camp in the night, the manna fell on it. {11:10} Moses heard the
people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his
tent: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was
displeased. {11:11} Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with
your servant? and why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you
lay the burden of all this people on me? {11:12} Have I conceived all
this people? Have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, Carry
them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land
which you swore to their fathers? {11:13} Where should I get meat to
give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us meat,
that we may eat. {11:14} I am not able to bear all this people alone,
because it is too heavy for me. {11:15} If you deal thus with me,
please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and
let me not see my wretchedness. {11:16} Yahweh said to Moses, Gather
to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the
elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the
tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you. {11:17} I will
come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the Spirit which
is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of
the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone. {11:18} Say
you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you shall
eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, Who shall
give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore
Yahweh will give you flesh, and you shall eat. {11:19} You shall not
eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty
days, {11:20} but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils,
and it be loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who
is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out
of Egypt? {11:21} Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six
hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh,
that they may eat a whole month. {11:22} Shall flocks and herds be
slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be
gathered together for them, to suffice them? {11:23} Yahweh said to
Moses, Has Yahweh's hand grown short? now shall you see whether my
word shall happen to you or not. {11:24} Moses went out, and told the
people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the elders
of the people, and set them round about the Tent. {11:25} Yahweh came
down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was
on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when
the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
{11:26} But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one
was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on
them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to
the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. {11:27} There ran a young
man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the
camp. {11:28} Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his
chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them. {11:29} Moses said
to him, Are you jealous for my sake? would that all Yahweh's people
were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them! {11:30} Moses
got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. {11:31} There went
forth a wind from Yahweh, and brought quails from the sea, and let
them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's
journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits
above the surface of the earth. {11:32} The people rose up all that
day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails:
he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all
abroad for themselves round about the camp. {11:33} While the flesh
was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh
was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a
very great plague. {11:34} The name of that place was called
Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
{11:35} From Kibrothhattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and
they abode at Hazeroth.
{12:1} Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite
woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. {12:2}
They said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he spoken
also with us? Yahweh heard it. {12:3} Now the man Moses was very
humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth. {12:4}
Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out
you three to the tent of meeting. They three came out. {12:5} Yahweh
came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and
called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. {12:6} He said,
Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make
myself known to him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream.
{12:7} My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house:
{12:8} with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not
in dark speeches; and the form of Yahweh shall he see: why then were
you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses? {12:9} The
anger of Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed. {12:10} The
cloud removed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as
[white as] snow: and Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was
leprous. {12:11} Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, please don't lay
sin on us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have
sinned. {12:12} Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh
is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb. {12:13} Moses
cried to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you. {12:14} Yahweh said
to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be
ashamed seven days? let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days,
and after that she shall be brought in again. {12:15} Miriam was shut
up outside of the camp seven days: and the people didn't travel until
Miriam was brought in again. {12:16} Afterward the people traveled
from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
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